Connect (EN & PL)
Welcome to EGA. This first Connect session is all about you. Your expectations, dreams, hopes, fears and plans for the next two days. You and 200 other participants, eager to meet with you. So let’s start by answering the first few questions in small groups, before we dive into an amazing plenary sessions.
Facilitators
Vesna Jusup – Operations Director at European Centre for Digital Action
Vesna’s educational background is in Art history, Museology and Pedagogy. But, last two decades she spent in the Green family, working on capacity building, networking, leadership and impact of young Greens, FYEG, CDN and Green parties. The last Green post Vesna held was the position of the Head of Policy, Strategy and Capacity development unit in the European Green party. Today, Vesna works as Operations director in European Center for Digital action, on a mission to raise digital capacities of the progressive political parties and organisations, specialized in digital organizing and small donor fundraising.
Katarzyna Zakliczynska – Heinrich Böll Stiftung Warsaw
Project coordinator at Heinrich Böll Stiftung Warsaw, where she oversees the European Green Academy and European Green Activist Training projects in cooperation with the Green European Foundation. Professionally she works in the areas of non-formal education and training. She is an alumna of Yenching Academy of Peking University, from where she holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Chinese philosophy and religion. Academically she has been researching the perspective of Confucian cosmology on modern ethics of ecology and new technologies, which she hopes to integrate with her experience in the third sector in the future.